@Puzzle Piece wrote:
I have never posted on your thread in Wellness. The thread 'Are You Falling Apart'. I believe you are not happy with how you are aging. I remember being a child loosing my teeth for the first time, falling and scaping my knee, braking my arm, having the flu's, colds, coughs, measles, etc. I never felt I was falling apart then and don't feel that way now. Sure throughout my life there was always things happening, just more grown up things. I won't let it get me down and out. I know I am not unique in that way.
I did learn that my mother would drink coffee and it would depress her. It was her chemical make up that would do it. Leaned this years later. Maybe you have some sort of reaction to things you are doing.
I saw the recent James Bond 007 installment - Spectre. In the film is a lovely female, Monica Belluci, she is 51! Imagine that a 51 year old Bond girl who has 'it'. The looks and body to blow you away. She's a natural as I've seen her in other films but she helps to set an example for those 50 plus that we don't have to fall apart or feel discarded. We can be great examples for the younger generations of women so that they can feel good about upcoming years in the future.
@Puzzle Piece
Love Roses,
While I appreciate your attempt to bring your awareness to my situation and offer a few suggestions, with all due respect the only thing I had done which adversely affected me was to have been injured on the job to the extent that he disk at L5-S1 totally herniated, thereby leaving the L5 vertebra sitting directly on top of S1. I "did" this by having to move five 5'x4' vendor trunks on tiny wheels over 3,000 feet. These were incredibly heavy with medical devices.
How do you qualify epilepsy; a 31 year to date chronic migraine (this is a migraine that never ceases); a lesion in my cervix; CRPS in both hands, which prohibits me from using my dominant hand for many of the things I loved doing; a valgus knee requiring replacement; the current nerve pain which course down my right leg (iliopsosas, vastus lateralis, anterir tibialis, then on occasion through he dorsum of my right foot), etc., etc. And, wha-lah, thanks to one of my specialists, I'll soon learn whether I have an abdminal aortic anuerysm.
The answer to this and more is that these must each be addressed by a clinical specialist and cannot be qualified or explained away through generalizations or the personal experiences of another person.
In your haste to perhaps make me feel better, you refer to an actress in the new Bond movie. With all due respect, I have no clue who this lady is and could care less about her looks, as $$ solve much for the aging actress. This entry is, perhaps, one to be avoided. "You, too, can look as gorgeous as _______ by doing ______." Pa-lease! The last place I would ever look for inspiration is a product of Hollywood or productions out of any other country.
I have done nothing in my 68 years, with th exception of the work injury, to make my body what it is. More to the point, I would venture to say that heredity has had more of an impact.
Aging is a very complicated process, which cannot be simplified or easily qualified. We need to appreciate women for who they are and how they address their daily challenges by offering loving and practical thoughts as the situation warrants. Bringing generalizations into such a discussion can be demeaning and of little to no worth to the individual.
~Rebecca
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